The Tuesday after Christmas, we loaded the girls in the car to head to the Hartwood Acres Celebration of Lights. It was recommended from friends as a "must-do" during the holiday season. Boy oh boy, Christmas lights galore!
I didn't have high expectations, and had never been to Hartwood Acres (big local park), so really had no idea what to expect. We were very pleasantly surprised! It was a ginormous extravaganza of lights, with different themes throughout the park (12 Days of Christmas, a red & green forest, dinosaurs (huh?), elves working, etc.).
The road through the park is about 3 miles long, and took us probably close to an hour! Scott and I had our holiday coffee drinks and enjoyed the lights, reflecting on how our annual holiday date
(in Chicago with dinner at CPOG and then Lincoln Park Zoo Lights) has happily morphed from a date night of just the two of us to a family affair, as the girls enjoyed the lights from their car seats
(well one of them did, the younger sister luckily (for us) slept through the whole drive).
The one disadvantage was that the park opens at 6pm, so we left our house at 5pm, which meant no dinner for Brooke beforehand. We arrived home at 8pm, and though Scott carried a sleeping Brooke up to her bed, she awoke and wanted dinner. Thus, here she is sitting at the table with her glow light necklace (handed out at the end of "drive"). Hopefully we can do this again next year!
(rumor has it this might be the last year)
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